well hi you guys welcome back to the needy Homesteader Channel and one of my most popular requested videos how I make my Apple dump cake now I did a video on this many years ago was I think one of the very first videos I made when I first started learning how to how to cook and it is like one of the worst videos on my channel and yet it's one of the most popular uh so I'm kind of redoing that now that I it's been like 7 years I think since I made that video so
I've learned how to make this dessert um a little bit better a little bit easier and um I'm going to show you exactly how I make it um I took this to a church Bible study over the weekend and it was a huge hit so I'm going to show you how I make it now I'm going to go through the ingredients real quickly here um you're going to need two sticks of butter to make this re recipe you're going to need apple pie filling so I'm going to be using my home canned apple pie filling
that I did with you guys uh not too long ago I'll leave a link hopefully up above that hasn't been working um for me so if it if I can't leave a card up in the corner I will leave the link to the the video on how I make and can apple pie filling down below um or if you don't know how to can apple pie filling or you don't want to make homemade apple pie filling you can go ahead and use canned so um that's an option so you're going to need pie filling I'm
going to be using two quarts or you can use two to three cans of that you're going to need um a cake mix I'm just going to use a white cake mix but you can use yellow you can use any actually any flavor you want you can change it up you're going to need a half a cup of butter and I choose to to add a little extra to mine now really that's all you need to make this but I like to sprinkle the top of my cake mix with a little bit of cinnamon sugar
this is a cinnamon sugar mix that I make myself but you can buy it pre-made um I also like to top it with some sanding sugar um so that's an option I buy my sanding sugar like this it runs about $2 um and I get it at the Amish um store that I buy all my my flow and stuff in bulk um so that and then I also like to drizzle if I'm going to make it fancy which um this one's going to be for the family tonight but I'm making an apple dump cake for
funeral uh for tomorrow so I'm going to dress it up a little bit with some caramel you can either get it in a squirt bottle which is easier to kind of decorate with or you can just buy a caramel dip like this and uh drizzle it with a spoon so those are some things that I'm going to add to mine but you don't need to but the these I'm going to be using so um I also want to say different variations like over here you could do uh cherry pie filling and top it with a
chocolate cake so you don't have to stick with just the apple and the and the white cake or vanilla cake you can play around with this and add whatever it is you like to add to it so um let the sky the limit let your imagination Chrome um but with that I'm going to clean this all up and we're going to put this together I'm going to show you how easy this is uh preheat your oven I have my oven over there preheating to 350° and let's do this okay so the very first thing I
want to do is I'm going to take out of these two sticks I'm just going to take one stick and I'm going to melt it and this is the way um doing it this way gives me the best results as far as is not having any raw um cake mix on the top is something I struggled with you know that was before when I was you know I would follow follow directions to a tea um and then I just struggled with my cake mix in some area body area is being raw so what we're going
to do is we're going to take one stick um or 1/4 cup of butter and we're going to melt this we're going to leave this one cold but we're going to melt this one in the microwave about 30 seconds and then if you're using home Canan pie filling of course you want to open up your jars take a look at it make sure you hear that nice good seal um and everything is good with your pie filling mine looks beautiful a look at that so um and then we're going to go ahead and take I'm
going to grab up one of these I I use these I don't know what do you call those they're they're kind of like a skinny little spatula I use this uh for my sour dough and then what we're going to do I'm just going to use a glass baking dish and I'm just going to pour my jars out into my baking dish okay and this is a I think a 9 by 11 um last lasagna pan it has a little the edges are a little taller I make my lasagna well I used to make my
lasagna now I have that uh Crock-Pot lasagna maker that I just love okay so once we have the pie filling in our dish we're just going to spread it out and make it as even as possible um now we're going to open up our box cake mix whatever kind it does not matter I'm going to grab a pair of scissors here and we're just going to I'm going to go ahead and just cut the corner off so it's easy to pour and we are just going to take this cake mix hopefully you guys can see
this and we are just going to go ahead and sprinkle it as evenly as we can I like to kind of do the edges first and go around the edges so that they're covered and then go ahead and cover the inside of the cake [Applause] okay and then I'm going to take a clean knife or you could use an offset spatula but a lot of people don't have that so I'm trying to use things that you'll have in your house and just kind of smooth it out making sure you don't uh dig up any apples
okay and then when you have it nice and even like that I like to go ahead and sprinkle some cinnamon sugar now my cinnamon sugar is more um cinnamon than sugar cuz I like to use this on uh cookies when I bake cookies and things like that uh cinnamon um toast for the kids in the morning so I like to add some cinnamon to the top of that and then what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and we are going to pour this butter over the top and I have found that
pouring half of the butter on top helps with the baking um making it bake nice and even and not having raw spots instead of just placing it cold butter over the whole thing so now what we're going to do with this other stick is we're going to open this up and then um with my butter knife here I'm going to slice very thin Pats it does not need to be thick okay the thinner the better and I first put all the little Pats in the corners those are usually the areas that if there's any raw
mix it's usually where they'll be very thin pats on any areas that you notice don't have a whole lot of melted butter on them so I like to do with edges and then we'll start [Music] in more the inner areas here again any place that I see exposed I'm trying to distribute it evenly all over cuz it's that butter that's going to bake our cake without all the cake ingredients it's a pretty neat dessert I think and if you take this to a holiday party I guarantee you you are not going to come home with
any leftovers anytime I take this or anytime I make this for my family there's there's like nothing left of it they just love it so much so if you're new to cooking but you want to make something this is a great option okay so now that we have that pretty much done and covered that's it that's it so uh we will add some sanding sugar um and some caramel to it once it's done baking so now my my oven over there scan you up my oven over there it's preheated to 350° I'm going to put
this um on the center rack I'm going to let It Bake keep an eye on it you know put the toothpick in it and see if the um if the cake is baked um in my experience it's about 40 minutes for it to bake um but everybody's oven is different so I would say set a timer for 30 minutes and then keep checking it every 5 minutes until your toothpick comes out clean it's nice and golden brown on the top and it looks baked you don't want it to look raw um I'll actually come back
after 30 minutes I'll show you what it looks like when it's still raw on top just so that you can have a better idea all right in the oven and go okay so my timer is up it's been 30 minutes and I'm just going to P this out so I can show you let me shut this timer off so I can show you what it looks like when it still needs a bit more time to cook so I'll take a knife here and let's see hopefully that will focus and you can see do you see
where it's just a little just still a little moist little moist a little undercooked so it's going to go back in I'm going to guess 10 more minutes and we'll check it again but I wanted to show you what that kind of looks like so you can um you know when it's up so it's hard to say just a time cuz like I said everyone's oven is different so just keep an eye on it so I'm going to put mine back in for 10 more minutes and I'll be back when it's done okay buzzer has
gone off I did put it in there for an additional 5 minutes because I had brought it out so I kind of had to catch back up the temperature that looks beautiful all right I got to keep the oven on I'm making another bit cake they said another dump cake for a funeral a double batch I'll bring you over here and show you that one that's over here in a foil pan so it's they don't have to worry about cleaning it and all of that kind of stuff after the funeral um I'm also baking bread
so that's what's on my list today so here you have it and it will kind of breathe a little bit you see how it's moving because the the apple pie filling is so hot but there you have it now while it's hot put you back on the stand here okay now what I like to do is I like to add sanding sugar sanding sugar if you can see that is just really chunky unlike um regular sugar um and so it just gives it a sparkle which I like and if you add it on while it's
hot you can actually hear it Sizzle I don't know if that's picking up or not but it will give it this nice little glisten on the top now some of it melts so you won't have it stay super chunky but it just it adds just such a prettiness and then um I'm going to let this cool for just a couple of minutes I'm going to come back and I'll show you the drizzled caramel on top okay so it's been a couple minutes and we have allowed that to cool down just a little bit so it's
not it's not breathing anymore now I'm show you both ways depending I mean if you want to add caramel this is not something you have to add um I'm going to add caramel for the one I'm making at church and that is in the oven that's a double batch so that was four uh cans of um apple pie filling and two box cake mixes and um I used ooh a half a cup of melted butter and a stick and a half of cold butter to top the top so it was a almost double minus a
half of a half stick or half of a stick of butter okay so you can pour it on like this which comes out really pretty if you can do the squeeze okay or you can use a container of caramel dip I took out a little bit and we're just going to warm it up because I'm going to actually going to use that whole container on the dump cake that's going to the church so I'm just going to warm it up a little bit to make it easier and then I'm going to do is just kind
of drizzle it out a little bit put little plops this doesn't spread as pretty as the bottle [Music] does and then okay and then I'm going to take mino's Chopsticks I'm going to take one of the Chopsticks off and I'm just going to lightly just kind of spread this out so if you buy the squeeze bottle I mean you could buy a plastic squeeze bottle and use it as well I'm trying to think of ways that you guys can do this in case you don't have you know I get my dear Deli off of Amazon
but not everybody can do that so or wants to do that so I'm trying to show you different ways that you can do it depending on what you have available again you don't have to put any caramel on this at all if you don't want to but the caramel adds to it so so there you go I'm going to add I'm going to add a little bit more here so it's a little my dump Cake's a little warm still I'll be adding it when it's totally cool to the um to the church um dump cake
so pull it so whichever way you want to do it or leave it totally out serve this with some vanilla ice cream I will see if we have any in the freezer and um I'll show you what this looks like cuz everybody likes it when I cut into it I usually don't do that otherwise it makes the video like really long to film but um everybody likes to see uh me cut into things so let me see if I have any ice cream and we'll scoop some of this out I'll show you what it looks
like I have a little plate of some ice cream and now I'm just going to go ahead and cut into this and scoop it out oh it's super super [Laughter] hot try to cut into yours when it once it's all set and you'll have a prettier turnout than I just did but there you have it okay let me show you there you have it make yours prettier than mine but it is so good so delicious let's see if I can't get Mason over here to taste test it for us but I'm going to have to
blow on it he doesn't do hot chew like his daddy okay Mason all right you going to try it yeah all right make sure you blow it okay I blow I don't want you to burn your lips off oh my gosh you even have the posture of your daddy is it hot super hot I know it's smoking it's got [Laughter] Steam what do you think good good all right that's for dessert tonight you give it two thumbs up oh you doing the happy dance people asked if you still did the happy dance you you've been
doing that since you were a baby you used to happy dance over bread good you gave it a good thumbs up and super easy super easy to make and delicious there won't be any of this left will there mm- all right want to say bye bye-bye bye-bye all right guys if you give this a try let me know and uh let me know what combination you make cuz like I said Sky you know the sky is the limit on this you can do pretty much any combo you want so all right guys thanks for watching
and I'll see you soon say bye guys bye guys
